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...fourth the altar. Over this, rather than the usual square design, he superimposed a circle to form the outer wall; surmounting the wall came a dome 106 ft. in diameter. The stained-glass windows, still to be donated, will be fitted in just beneath the dome, to filter sunlight. Thanks to sunken gardens adjoining the church, more sunlight streams into the lower level. Since Wright's concrete is painted egg-yellow, it is sometimes hard to tell where sun begins and building ends. The dome is gold inside, royal blue outside...
Plants that grow in the open waste a large part of the sunlight that hits them. Their leaves look green because they reflect most of the green and yellow light at the center of the visible spectrum. Their chlorophyll absorbs chiefly red and blue light, so only a small part of sunlight's total energy is used to turn water and carbon dioxide into sugar, cellulose and other materials that plants need for growth...
This waste does not bother the present-day farmer; the sunlight that falls on his fields is free. But commercial florists, whose greenhouses already blaze with artificial light to speed the flowering of their plants, must pay heavily for electric energy, and much of it is wasted on light that plants cannot use. For florists, and for housewives who grow African violets in dark apartments, Sylvania's special fluorescent lamp, called Gro-Lux, may mean a significantly smaller electric bill...
...stagnant pool, beside which the Communist boss lies dead; the lovers in a ruined church, its Christ figure splintered and dangling upside down in the foreground; Maciek setting fire to each glass of vodka on a bar and delivering weird incantations to old, dead loves; his girl drenched in sunlight while Maciek-in the death throes on a dank rubbish heap-whimpers and twitches like a wounded rabbit...
...still better and ever better--who is willing to bear penalties for his mistakes and expects rewards for his achievements--who looks at the universe with the fearless eagerness of a child, knowing it to be intelligible--who demands straight lines, clear terms, precise definitions--who stands in full sunlight and has no use for the murky fog of the hidden, the secret, the unnamed, the furtively evocative, for any code of signals from the psycho-epistemology of guilt...